Welcome to hirosanblog! by Ryo Hirosawa, the first Japanese man who learned human echolocation from Juan Ruiz, Brin Bushway and Daniel Kish. photogenic instinct that hasn't die after losing his eyesight completely, he continues to see the world through the lens by sound.
廣澤亮トイウゼンモウデス。デ本人で初めて、米国で人間のエコー（ロケーション反響定位）の技術を学びました。
全盲になっても写真が趣味。盲人写真家(のつもりで)写真を多くちりばめながラ、シカクショウガイシャノシテンカラ、ブログヲシッピツシテイキマス。

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

A Day at Hhopping Mall for Echolocation Practise - ショッピングモールでエコーロケーションを実践してみる

One of the things I told Daniel nd Juan what I want to do while I am in Long Beach is shopping for shirts.The reason behind my wish is that my parents threw most of my favourite shirts while I was in hospital as I am losing my eyesight, thinking I would have no vision, I would not care what shirts I ware... which is the wrong assumtion.I realised that my parents only left conservative designs that Japanese people like, so I really want to look for some shirts that have different and distinctive designs to Japanese ones.For making my wish come true, Juan took me to Lakewood shopping mall for echolocation training!

Neil drove us to the mall, but as soon as he dropped us off, Juan told me to find the mall entrance!

As I am hearing the traffic noise, I turned against it, assuming there is no building that way. Fair enough, thanks to Neil who parked his car close to the building, I can hear the traffic noise bouncing off from the building. Passive sonar works great if traffic is so noisy.

Then, I approach to the building, observing mall traffic and confirm that cars stopped for us to cross, we approached to the building. Observing the doors opening and closing, I found the entrance of the building, and entered.

About Me

Ryo Hirosawa is an advantitiously blind man since 2009, after suffering from glaucoma caused by Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Though I was given 1 year to live, I've lived over decades.
While this society in Japan tried to exclude me, I decided to fly to America to learn human echolocation to reclaim independence, freedom and responsibility. Now I have a skill to "see the world by sound" and still in the process of "recovery and discovery."
Photography is the part of my whole life, and the instinct never dies after becoming completely blind with absolutely no sense of light. Now I'm "seeing through the lens with sound" and continue shooting phothave a look at my photos on flickr or instagram under username "blindhirosan"
cheers and thanks for checking my profile!
ひろサワ亮と言います。特発性拡張型心筋症に起因する緑内障から、全盲になりました。引きこもりの毎日の中で、社会から疎遠になっていく自分を変えたいと思い、アメリカで人間のエコーロケーション（反響定位）を、ホワン・ルイズ、ダニエル・キッシュとブライアン・ブッシュウェイから学びました。絵エコロケーションの訓練の日々は、音による新しい発見の毎日でした。
失明以前から写真を撮るのが好きで、視覚障害者になって、写真を撮るのを諦めかけましたが、現在はエコーロケションを駆使して、全盲写真家のつもりで写真を撮っています。ほとんどの写真は、ウリッカーもしくはInstagram(blindhirosan)で公開していますので、どうぞご覧ください。